Raswan

The Black Tents of Arabia

My Life Amonst the Bedouins

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published originally in 1935, this is an account of twenty-two years spent off and on among the Bedouins of Arabia, migrating, hunting, raiding, starving and feasting and making wonderful desert friendships. The author writes the book for 'the Lord of the land of his fathers,' the King of Arabia 'Abd el-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud el Wahhab and his governors and chiefs in Nejd, Hasa, Jauf, and Kaf and Amir Nuri Sha'lan, his family and tribe of the Ruala. An intimate account of the tradition and ancestors of the Bedouin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780710306722
• ISBN-10: 0710306725
• Artikelnr.: 21373907

Autorenporträt

Cari S. Raswan

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE THE HEIRS OF ISHMAËL I. The Young Prince of the Ruala II. Faris-"A
Friend of God III. The Lone Shepherdess IV. I Meet My Blood-Brother Again.
V. Love in the Desert VI. "The Commander of Our Camel-saddles" VII. Death
in the Desert VIII. Panther and Ostrich IX. The Nufud X. Sandstorm XI. Days
of Ease XII. Camels, Women, Children-and Locusts XIII. Tuëma XIV. The
Hunger March XV. Famine and War XVI. A New Lease of Life XVII. The War
Goddess XVIII. The Land of Promise XIX. The Ambush XX. "The Cloudi n My
Eyes XXI. The "Ark of Ishmaël PART TWO HUNTING AND WARFARE XXII. Ali the
Protector" XXIII. Adventures with the Tin-lizzie" XXIV. With the Tai' and
Shammar Bedouins XXV. Honour Among Thieves XXVI. The Stealing of the Mare"
XXVII. Anaga-the Falcon XXVIII. The Young Gazelle Buck